Sergei Eisenstein被认为是电影最伟大的革命者之一。不太为人所知的是，他也是一位多产的平面艺术家，作为表达自己想法的一种手段，他用的是强制手段。

按时间顺序排列，【纸上的艾森斯坦】分成六章，每一章都是关于每一个不同时期的图形作品，以及艾森斯坦自己的文章和日记的摘录相互交织。1930年，Eisenstein前往美国和墨西哥，在那里他创作了数百幅受古代和当代墨西哥艺术影响的画作。1932年被迫回到俄罗斯时，Eisenstein受到了共产主义政府的审查，在没有政治干预的情况下，努力拍摄更多的电影，再次为艺术自由画草图。尽管在他的一生中完成了相对较少的电影，但Eisenstein做了几千幅画。这本书是与俄罗斯国家艺术与文学档案馆开创性合作的产物，也是对不可思议的图形天才的致敬。

This landmark publication presents, for the first time ever, 500 of the very best and previously unpublished graphic works by cinema’s master of film. Created in collaboration with RGALI – the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts – this book traces Eisenstein’s extraordinary life and career through the distinctive yet evolving styles of his drawings, from early childhood sketches to set and costume designs, and from surreal pshychoanalytic drawings to late abstract works. Foremost Eisenstein scholar Naum Kleiman brings fresh and incredible insights into the motivation and purpose of the drawings, and reflects upon excerpts from Eisenstein’s own discursive texts, some published here for the first time. Comparative frames from Eisenstein’s movies – scanned from the original film – together with a biographical introduction and a foreword by Martin Scorsese completes the revelatory and arresting picture.